It would be presumptuous to say that a single anthology, especially one drawn from work which originally appeared in a single small-press magazine, could encompass the whole of mid-20th-century literature, but TQ 20 comes very close. Its worthy predecessor, The Ploughshares Reader ( LJ 5/15/85) is a cozy, rainy-day book in comparison to this catch-all of classic authors (Nabokov, Bellow, Borges), the unjustly neglected (George P. Elliott, Kenneth Rexroth, Edward Dahlberg), and more than 100 others writers whose place in the pantheon of international literature is yet to be determined. A great value, and a beautifully illustrated one at that, and a worthy continuation of a welcome `` celebratory'' series. David Kirby, English Dept., Florida State Univ., Tallahassee
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